This week’s post is brought to you by someone who’s only just returned from summer holidays, but already wishes it was December.

Holidays are great, but you’re glad to come back to work after a while. Not just because it’s not nice to have free time, but because this means that you’re not forced to listen to bad lounge versions of popular songs while sitting in restaurants.

I spent this week on holiday, watching most films on an iPad, but I don’t think that’s the reason the choice of films turned out quite disappointing…

This is a short post because I only managed to see two films.
To expand it, I had written a long-ish detour about the latest drama in the ‘good guys’ social network, but I ultimately decided it doesn’t belong in this post.

We didn’t save The Cheerleader, how can we save the world?
This week brought more sad news when Hayden Panettiere passed away. I don’t want these introductions to become ‘obituary of the week’, but I was quite saddened to learn about the demise of the young woman that brought some warmth to Heroes and two Scream films.

August heat is boiling my grey cells, so let’s just get to the visions.

Is there a chance that, if Marvel reboots the MCU at the end of 2027, the whole world could be rebooted too? I feel like there’s no hope in where we are going. Can we try another way?

I’ve said it before, I’ve been an Empire Magazine fanboy for years, and I’ve been supporting it as much as I can; I’ve subscribed to the paid podcasts (now rebranded Empire+), I regularly buy streaming tickets for the occasional live shows, and of course I’ve had a subscription to the magazine itself, in physical form; even if every issue arrives weeks after it’s available in the UK, even if I’ve never received any of the ‘Summer special’ issues.
Getting the Empire-sized white envelope in the post, although pre-opened more often than not, has been a small pleasure for years.

You might know The Commitments is one of my favourite films, so I was emotionally touched by the news that Glen Hansard, who played guitar in the titular band, passed away this week.